Election
Constituency

193. Bakhtiarpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1972

BR-BAKHTIARPUR

SOP 33.3%won by 1.0%NCO 32.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to SOP (SOP), which now leads by 1.0%.

  • SOP vote shareSOP went from 0.0% to 33.3% of the vote here (+33.3%).
  • New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 1969.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.6% of the vote between them, up from 53.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
91,456
Margin
900
0.98%

Candidates

9 contested · winner SOP
  1. 1BHOLA PRASAD SINGHSOP · SOP30,43233.3%
  2. 2HARI NARAIN SINGHNCO · NCO29,53232.3%
  3. 3RAM LAKHAN RAIIndependent · IND22,52624.6%
  4. 4RAMJEE CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND5,2905.8%
  5. 5HARI NANDAN RAIIndependent · IND2,3952.6%
  6. 6RAGHUNANDAN PRASAD SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7300.8%
  7. 7RAM NARESH SINGHIndependent · IND3090.3%
  8. 8RAM VRIKSHA SINGHIndependent · IND1310.1%
  9. 9BHARAT SHARMAIndependent · IND1110.1%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
SOPflipped
SOP–NCO swing
+1.0%
SOP share
0.0% → 33.3%
NCO share
0.0% → 32.3%
Turnout
— → —
192. Barh194. Fatwa
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